Democratic Republic of the Congo: General Resources, Culture, Education, & History
- American Museum of Natural History: American Museum Congo Expedition 1909-1915 (New York)A multi-media web presentation (photographs, audio narrative, sound recordings, maps, related texts) on the expedition of Herbert Lang and James Chapin begun in 1909 in what was northeastern Belgian Congo. "Five and a half years later, they had collected tons of precious zoological and anthropological specimens representing one of the most comprehensive collections of the day."
- Antislavery Usable Past: "Congo" (University of Nottingham, in partnership with the Universities of Hull and Queen’s Belfast, UK)Part of a larger digital project, the web site offers in open access an archive of colonial photographs from the "Congo Free State" era and from more recent times in the eastern DRC.
--See also: Archive home page - 7e Biennale de Lubumbashi, du 6 octobre au 6 novembre 2022---"Toxicity" (Democratic Republic of Congo)"Initiée depuis 2008 par l’Asbl Picha, La Biennale de Lubumbashi, Rencontres Picha sert de point de ralliement pour la jeune scène artistique, avec, à l’origine, un accent sur l’image photographique telle qu’elle s’impose dans la réalité de l’art contemporain. Elle fournit une plate-forme pour les artistes et acteurs culturels de la République Démocratique du Congo, dans le cadre d’échanges internationaux et divers réseaux."
- Centre Aequatoria: Centre de Recherches Culturelles Africanistes (Brussels, Belgium; Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo)
- "...est spécialisé dans l'étude des langues, des cultures et de l'histoire (pre-coloniale et coloniale) de l'Afrique sub-saharienne. Il regroupe une bibliothèque, des archives et un guesthouse [à Bamanya, 10 km de Mbandaka]."
- Publications, 1937-2009: index et les textes intégraux
- Voir aussi: Placide Tempels
- Comparing the Copperbelt: Political Culture and Knowledge Production in Central Africa (Oxford University, UK)The site includes links to online publications, news, events, and podcasts of lectures by affiliated faculty. "This project provides the first comparative historical analysis – local, national and transnational – of the Central African copperbelt. This globally strategic mineral region is central to the history of two nation-states (Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)), as well as wider debates about the role of mineral wealth in development."
--"Comparing the Copperbelt: Social History and Knowledge Production in Central Africa," June 17-19, 2021, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
"Call for Papers": the deadline for proposals is October 15, 2020. - The Congo Crisis, 1960-1961: A Critical Oral History Conference, September 23-24, 2004 (History & Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC)
Transcript of the proceedings, 208 pages in PDF format
--See also: History through Documents and Memory: A CWIHP Critical Oral History Conference of the Congo Crisis, 1960-1961: a summary of the conference by Lisa Namikas (December 18, 2004) - Congo 2010 Expositions -- Fleuve Congo, Indépendance!, Bonjour Congo, Kinshasa-Bruxelles, et Collections Itinérantes, avril 2010--janvier 2011, Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, Tervuren, Belgium
- 10th Annual "Congo in Harlem" Film Festival, October 14-21, 2018, Maysles Cinema, New York"Launched in 2009...the series showcases a wide range of films by Congolese and international directors, representing the most important issues facing the Democratic Republic of Congo today."
- Embassies and Consulates of and in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain: "Beauté Congo, 1926-2015 - Congo Kitoko"...jusqu'au 10 janvier 2016 (Paris, France)
- H-Africa Discussion Threads: King Leopold and Africanists + the Rwanda Genocide and the Reading Public (HNet/Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)An archive of e-mail commentaries from scholars about Adam Hoschild's popular 1998 book, King Leopold's Ghost, and the issues surrounding history and the Congo region today.
- Histoire de la colonisation belge du Congo (Patrick Cloos et le Comité Consultatif--Adam Hochschild, Isidore Ndaywel E Nziem, et Jules Marchal; CoBelCo, Bruxelles, Belgique)"...les faits rapportés sur le site proviennent principalement des différents volumes de L'Histoire du Congo éécrits par Jules Marchal, qui sont les résultats des recherches qu'il a personnellement effectéées depuis 25 ans. Vous pourrez également lire son interview, tout comme celle d'Adam Hochschild dont le livre Les Fantômes du roi Léopold. II a également servi de source historique au contenu du site."
- Houses in the rainforest: ethnicity and inequality among farmers and foragers in central Africa. By Roy Richard Grinker III. -- Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press ; California Digital Library eScholarship program, 2003 (1994).
- Journal of Language and Popular Culture in Africa: Archives in Popular Swahili [of the Eastern Congo] (Vincent A. de Rooij, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)A set of online texts: Excerpts from Tshibumba Kanda Matulu's "History of Zaire" as told to Johannes Fabian in 1974, in KiSwahili and English translation, plus a few other parallel KiSwahili-English texts and a "Boloki" text from the late 19th century. The collection is in part a supplement to Johannes Fabian's Remembering the present: painting and popular history in Zaire (published by University of California Press, 1996). The online texts are part of a web site announcing an electronic journal.
- Kimbanguisme.net (France)Un site de la diaspora congolaise et du mouvement indépendantiste développé au sein du Christianisme par Simon Kimbangu et ses fidèles au Congo depuis 1921.
- Lingala Language Resources
- Foreign Service Institute--text and audio: Lingala Basic Course (1963) By James Redden F. Bongo et al.
-- Washington, DC: FSI, 1963. 308 pages in PDF format (via Live Lingua Project, Boston, Massachusetts)
- Lexilogos: Dictionnaires Lingala-Français (Xavier Nègre et alli., France)
- Lingala-Français Bi-Grammaire (ELAN--Ecole et langues nationales en Afrique, via L'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, Montréal, Québec, Canada)
- Foreign Service Institute--text and audio: Lingala Basic Course (1963) By James Redden F. Bongo et al.
- Luba-Kasai: a working bibliography. By Valentine Kanyinda Muyumba, Indiana State University. Electronic journal of Africana bibliography. (Online); vol. 9 (2004) -- New York: Columbia University Libraries, 2004.
- Patrice Lumumba, 1925-1961
- The Africa Center, Museum for African Art, New York: "A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art" (1999)Exhibition catalog. Guest curator, Bogumil Jewsiewicki. The exhibition included a series of nearly 50 paintings by Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu, an influential artist of the 1970s.
- Belgium. Chambre des représentants: Documents parlementaires, les conclusions, et le rapport de la Commission (2001) d'enquête parlementaire chargée de déterminer les circonstances exactes de l'assassinat de Patrice Lumumba et l'implication éventuelle des responsables politiques belges dans celui-ci, novembre 2001. (Brussels, Belgium)
- Grioo.Com: La dernière lettre de Patrice Lumumba (novembre 1960). Le 5 novembre 2003. (Paris, France)
- Lumumba -- Zietgeist Films (New York)Commercial site: Information about the film and its director, Raoul Peck; plus promotional links.
- RFI Archives d'Afrique: Portrait de Patrice Emery Lumumba, du 6 au 13 novembre 2009 (Radio France Internationale, Paris)
- University of Kansas Libraries: The Last Days of Lumumba: The Late Lion of the Congo, A Drama. (1961) By Thomas Iguh. -- Onitsha, Nigeria, A. Onwudiwe & Sons, 1961? Onitsha Market Literature. (Lawrence, Kansas)
- The Africa Center, Museum for African Art, New York: "A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art" (1999)
- Mukanda: ressources documentaires sur l'Afrique centrale (Centre « ÉCRITURES », Université de Lorraine, Metz, France)Un fichier bibliographique d’environ 23.000 références indexées..."Mukanda est une plate-forme de documentation pour l’Afrique centrale. Son principe de base est la mutualisation des données."
- Musée Dapper sur l'Afrique -- Exposition: Initiés--bassin du Congo, du 9 octobre 2013 au 6 juillet 2014 (Paris, France)
- Musée du Quai Branly -- Exposition: Fleuve Congo--Arts d'Afrique centrale, du 22 juin au 3 octobre 2010 (Paris, France)
- Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale = Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgique)
- The website offers information and photos from exhibitions, related links, and lists of publications--only a few are online.
- Lists of all publications
- Monographs of the DR Congo Provinces
- Inventory of The Stanley Archives (430 p.)
- Une Introduction à l'Ethnohistoire des Hema du Nord (Congo du Nord-Est) par Edmond Thiry (2004). -- Tervuren, Belgique: Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 2004. (127 p.)
- République démocratique du Congo. (Kinshasa)
- Ministère de la Culture, Arts, et Patrimoines
- Ministère de l'Enseignement Primaire, Secondaire, et Technique
- Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et Universitaire
- Ministère de la Jeunesse, des Sports et Loisirs
- Mary Nooter Roberts, 1959-2018
- ACASA--Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ASA) of the United States, 17th Triennial Symposium, Accra, Ghana: ACASA Leadership Award 2017 ; Polly Nooter Roberts "ACASA Leadership Award" acceptance speech, August 2017. --via Vimeo.com
- Art and Life in Africa: "Luba Art and Divination," by Mary Nooter Roberts (2014) University of Iowa, Stanley Museum of Art. (Iowa City, Iowa) --via The Internet Archive
- Ethnic Arts Council "Dai Sensai Award": Polly Nooter Roberts' acceptance speech, October 2017 (Los Angeles, California) --via YouTube.com
- Fowler Museum of Art, University of California, Los Angeles: "A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal," February-July 2003. Curated by Mary Nooter Roberts, deputy director and chief curator of the Fowler Museum, and Allen F. Roberts, director of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center and professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA.
--See also: "Passport to Paradise" web exhibition - H-Africa Discussion List: "Sad News: Passing of Professor Polly Roberts," September 11, 2018. (H-Net, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Shaping Power" (2014) by Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts. --via YouTube.com
- UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture: In memoriam: 'Polly' Nooter Roberts (Los Angeles, California)
- ACASA--Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ASA) of the United States, 17th Triennial Symposium, Accra, Ghana: ACASA Leadership Award 2017 ; Polly Nooter Roberts "ACASA Leadership Award" acceptance speech, August 2017. --via Vimeo.com
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook: Democratic Republic of Congo (2024)
- Universities in Democratic Republic of Congo
- Jan Vansina, 1929-2017
- H-Africa: "Jan Vansina: The Exit of A Generalissimo," February 15, 2017. By Prof. Toyin Falola.
(H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan) - Northwestern University, Melville J. Herskovits Library: Jan Vansina Papers, 1710-2010 (Evanston, Illinois)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Trailblazing African History Scholar Jan Vansina Passes Away," February 13, 2017
- H-Africa: "Jan Vansina: The Exit of A Generalissimo," February 15, 2017. By Prof. Toyin Falola.
- "War & peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo" (2000) by Herbert Weiss. -- Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. 33 pages in PDF format
- Papa Wemba, 1949-2016 a.k.a. Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba
- AfroPop Worldwide on Papa Wemba (New York, USA)
- AllAfrica.com on Papa Wemba (Washington, DC, USA)
- Papa Wemba -- Site Officiel
- Radio France Internationale sur Papa Wemba (RFI Musique, Paris, France)
- Zaire: a country study. Area handbook. (Washington, DC: Library of Congress; US Department of the Army, 1993)The electronic version of the handbook, with chapters on history, geography, economy, society & culture, government, and bibliography.